Random question: Honor Harrington's height, weight, and ey..

Dahak wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:44 GMT, an orbiting mind-control laser made
> Jeffrey MacHott <Raguleader DeleteThis @netzero.net> write:
>
>> So, I'm putting in an infobox for the Honor Harrington article on
>> Wikipedia, and I was wondering if anyone happened to have the books
>> handy who could find her height, weight, and eye color for me?
>
> Height: 188cm
> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
> Hair: dark brown
> Eyes: brown
>
>
> -JPB

After some thought, I decided that the infoboxes don't really need the
characters' height. Now I'm just trying to figure out why the infobox
refuses to work in the Thomas Theisman article (I pasted it into the
Discussion section if anyone wants to poke it with a stick)

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Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
> Dahak wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:44 GMT, an orbiting mind-control laser made
>> Jeffrey MacHott <Raguleader.RemoveThis@netzero.net> write:
>>
>>> So, I'm putting in an infobox for the Honor Harrington article on
>>> Wikipedia, and I was wondering if anyone happened to have the books
>>> handy who could find her height, weight, and eye color for me?
>>
>> Height: 188cm
>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>> Hair: dark brown
>> Eyes: brown
>>
>>
>> -JPB
>
> After some thought, I decided that the infoboxes don't really need the
> characters' height. Now I'm just trying to figure out why the infobox
> refuses to work in the Thomas Theisman article (I pasted it into the
> Discussion section if anyone wants to poke it with a stick)

Nevermind, I'm just a retard. Didn't have enough closing brackets.
Works now.

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"Jeffrey MacHott" <Raguleader RemoveThis @netzero.net> wrote in message
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> Dahak wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:44 GMT, an orbiting mind-control laser made
>> Jeffrey MacHott <Raguleader RemoveThis @netzero.net> write:
>>
>>> So, I'm putting in an infobox for the Honor Harrington article on
>>> Wikipedia, and I was wondering if anyone happened to have the books
>>> handy who could find her height, weight, and eye color for me?
>>
>> Height: 188cm
>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>> Hair: dark brown
>> Eyes: brown
>>
>>
>> -JPB
>
> After some thought, I decided that the infoboxes don't really need the
> characters' height. Now I'm just trying to figure out why the infobox
> refuses to work in the Thomas Theisman article (I pasted it into the
> Discussion section if anyone wants to poke it with a stick)

Actually they do. The height/size of some of these people is interesting.

>
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
<Dahak_II DeleteThis @theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:

>Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned

Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.

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In article <p71bu2h87gacos02kdik4q5nngjh9m2nuo.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>,
mike weber <fairportfan.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
> <Dahak_II.TakeThisOut@theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>
> Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.

Lots of references to her liking to swim, and none to her have to work
to stay afloat, so she can't be much denser than anyone else. Even a
couple of pounds of negative buoyancy make a big difference to how hard
it is to swim.

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mike weber wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
> <Dahak_II.RemoveThis@theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>
> Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.

Lots of muscle mass, very fast metabolism (she eats chocolate chip
cookies and her body breaks them down and converts them into nutrients
faster than her hips can say "Can we have some?"), and pretty tall, so
she'd be fairly heavy, but graceful enough that it probably wouldn't
occur to a random person looking at her.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:57:01 GMT, Jeffrey MacHott
<Raguleader DeleteThis @netzero.net> wrote:

>mike weber wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
>> <Dahak_II DeleteThis @theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>>
>> Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.
>
>Lots of muscle mass, very fast metabolism (she eats chocolate chip
>cookies and her body breaks them down and converts them into nutrients
>faster than her hips can say "Can we have some?"), and pretty tall, so
>she'd be fairly heavy, but graceful enough that it probably wouldn't
>occur to a random person looking at her.

Both David and i are heavier than we look, and always have been (i
shall not discuss how much *i* weigh these days, and have no idea how
heavy Dave is), because we are four to six inches shoerter than our
overall build says we ought to be - Very Short Legs, inherited from
our maternal grandfather who was half-a-head or more shorter than me
[Dave is four inches taller than i], and an inch of torso (where we
both have our height) weighs a lot more than an inch of leg...

Pics of us'ns covering literally the last twenty-six years online at
http://electronictiger.com/avail/usns.pdf

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Don Sample wrote:
> In article <p71bu2h87gacos02kdik4q5nngjh9m2nuo.RemoveThis@4ax.com>,
> mike weber <fairportfan.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
>> <Dahak_II.RemoveThis@theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>> Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.
>
> Lots of references to her liking to swim, and none to her have to work
> to stay afloat, so she can't be much denser than anyone else. Even a
> couple of pounds of negative buoyancy make a big difference to how hard
> it is to swim.

Well, I suppose it's possible that Honor is just that much of a hoss,
but being able to swim easily seems to run kind of counter to someone
with as low a body/fat ratio as Honor is implied as having. I mean,
it's possible that she's impressive in more areas than her tactical
ability and martial arts ability, ifyaknowwhatImean (*insert joke about
Honor owning large areas of land on Sphinx and Grayson*), but I don't
think we've ever been given anything in the books to go on for that.

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"Jeffrey MacHott" <Raguleader RemoveThis @netzero.net> wrote in message
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> Don Sample wrote:
>> In article <p71bu2h87gacos02kdik4q5nngjh9m2nuo RemoveThis @4ax.com>,
>> mike weber <fairportfan RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0500, Dahak
>>> <Dahak_II RemoveThis @theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
>>> Heavier than she looks, i'm guessing, due to her genie heritage.
>>
>> Lots of references to her liking to swim, and none to her have to work to
>> stay afloat, so she can't be much denser than anyone else. Even a couple
>> of pounds of negative buoyancy make a big difference to how hard it is to
>> swim.
>
> Well, I suppose it's possible that Honor is just that much of a hoss, but
> being able to swim easily seems to run kind of counter to someone with as
> low a body/fat ratio as Honor is implied as having. I mean, it's possible
> that she's impressive in more areas than her tactical ability and martial
> arts ability, ifyaknowwhatImean (*insert joke about Honor owning large
> areas of land on Sphinx and Grayson*), but I don't think we've ever been
> given anything in the books to go on for that.

Guys swim faster than females but they don't float as well when they are
lean and they use more fuel to do it. I suspect Honor was a good swimmer but
maybe not as good at floating as a woman would have been expected to be.

>
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>
> "Sola bona lingua est mortua lingua"
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Don Sample wrote:

> Lots of references to her liking to swim, and none to her have to work
> to stay afloat, so she can't be much denser than anyone else. Even a
> couple of pounds of negative buoyancy make a big difference to how hard
> it is to swim.

I used to be unable to float, even after taking a deep breath, and had
no difficulty swimming.

I sort of remember her discussing being unable to float due to her
denser muscle structure.
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On Feb 25, 10:29 pm, Dahak <Dahak....TakeThisOut@theXOUTfifthimperium.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:44 GMT, an orbiting mind-control laser made
> Jeffrey MacHott <Ragulea....TakeThisOut@netzero.net> write:
>
> >So, I'm putting in an infobox for the Honor Harrington article on
> >Wikipedia, and I was wondering if anyone happened to have the books
> >handy who could find her height, weight, and eye color for me?
>
> Height: 188cm
> Weight: I don't think it's ever been mentioned
> Hair: dark brown
> Eyes: brown
>
> -JPB


The 188cm has shown up in other places. The Saganami Island Tactical
Simulator gives her height as 188cm and her weight as 70kg. The
weight number is blatantly wrong, and is probably the result of
someone looking at her weight in kg, seeing the number is way bigger
than he expected, assuming it was meant to be in pounds, and
converting that number to kg. This puts Honor Harrington at slightly
over three hundred pounds (152kg), which, for a well muscled and dense
individual, is not too heavy (except to float easily), especially one
who is about the same height as the governor of California.

The closest Honor ever came to 70kg was during her stint on the Tepes,
when her jailor miscalculated how much food she needed. When I was 19
years old, I was 191cm and about 85kg. I was rail-thin. If I
inhaled, you could see the lowest eight pairs of ribs. There is no
way that Honor is 70kg, in fighting trim.
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On 10 Mar 2007 10:33:32 -0800, "rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com"
<rlbell.nsuid.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:


>
>The 188cm has shown up in other places. The Saganami Island Tactical
>Simulator gives her height as 188cm and her weight as 70kg. The
>weight number is blatantly wrong, and is probably the result of
>someone looking at her weight in kg, seeing the number is way bigger
>than he expected, assuming it was meant to be in pounds, and
>converting that number to kg. This puts Honor Harrington at slightly
>over three hundred pounds (152kg), which, for a well muscled and dense
>individual, is not too heavy (except to float easily), especially one
>who is about the same height as the governor of California.
>
>The closest Honor ever came to 70kg was during her stint on the Tepes,
>when her jailor miscalculated how much food she needed. When I was 19
>years old, I was 191cm and about 85kg. I was rail-thin. If I
>inhaled, you could see the lowest eight pairs of ribs. There is no
>way that Honor is 70kg, in fighting trim.


bear in mind women are build differently than men are and will weigh
quite a bit less at a given height. 300 lb is an awfully large woman
even allowing for being a genie with a bit denser muscle etc.
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In article <1d06v2dug7d3r6p5ac6tpha7sh4er8j1ug RemoveThis @4ax.com>,
Brian McDonald <Brian_knowspam.McDonald RemoveThis @shaw.ca> wrote:

> On 10 Mar 2007 10:33:32 -0800, "rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com"
> <rlbell.nsuid RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >The 188cm has shown up in other places. The Saganami Island Tactical
> >Simulator gives her height as 188cm and her weight as 70kg. The
> >weight number is blatantly wrong, and is probably the result of
> >someone looking at her weight in kg, seeing the number is way bigger
> >than he expected, assuming it was meant to be in pounds, and
> >converting that number to kg. This puts Honor Harrington at slightly
> >over three hundred pounds (152kg), which, for a well muscled and dense
> >individual, is not too heavy (except to float easily), especially one
> >who is about the same height as the governor of California.
> >
> >The closest Honor ever came to 70kg was during her stint on the Tepes,
> >when her jailor miscalculated how much food she needed. When I was 19
> >years old, I was 191cm and about 85kg. I was rail-thin. If I
> >inhaled, you could see the lowest eight pairs of ribs. There is no
> >way that Honor is 70kg, in fighting trim.
>
>
> bear in mind women are build differently than men are and will weigh
> quite a bit less at a given height. 300 lb is an awfully large woman
> even allowing for being a genie with a bit denser muscle etc.

I looked her up in a couple of "Ideal weight for height" charts, and
70kg would put her pretty much in the middle of the range for a medium
framed woman of her height. (I had to do a little extrapolating, since
they usually only went to 6'.)

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